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This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works--how it is implicated in the construction of meaning--can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins or what we perceive and through a sleight of hand wherein behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts 00-Prelims(a).pdf 1 00a-Intro(a).pdf 9 01-Beeman(a) REV.pdf 29 02-Achino(a).pdf 43 03-Cook(a).pdf 60 04-Kingsolver(a).pdf 79 05-Barber(a).pdf 100 06-Sheriff(a).pdf 121 07-Sider(a).pdf 147 08-Fernandez(a).pdf 166 09-Bios REV.pdf 182 10-Author Index.pdf 184 11-Subject Index REV.pdf 188 Title Page 3 Table of Contents 5 List of Figures and Tables 6 Introduction: Silence as the Currency of Power 9 Part I: Silence, Context, and Categories of Identity 29 Chapter 1: Silence in Music 31 Chapter 2: Silence and the Imperatives of Identity 43 Chapter 3: Language Policies and the Erasure of Multilingualism in South Africa 60 Part II: Silence and Power in Ethnographic Perspective 79 Chapter 4: Strategic Alterity and Silence in the Promotion of California's Proposition 187 and of the Confederate Battle Flag in South Carolina 81 Chapter 5: No/Ma(i)ds: Silenced Subjects in Phillippine Migration 100 "This book argues that only by studying how silence works how it is implicated in the construction of meaning - can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins of what we perceive and through a sleight of hand where behaviors undertaken in the service of self-interest appear instead as inevitable and devoid of human agency. The theoretical load of this argument is carried by vivid ethnographic material dealing with music, linguistic behavior, racial conflicts, work dislocations, and the construction of anthropological subjects and texts."--Jacket